Paul Markey

Writer, projectionist and cinephile

Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein

Why Young Frankenstein is still a perfect comedy, 50 years on

It may be fifty years since we started laughing at one of cinema's most perfect comedies, but its origins actually stretch back even further...

Film • 04 Oct 24

Orson Welles is Harry Lime in The Third Man

The Third Man at 75 - on location with a movie masterpiece

The Third Man, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, is not an Orson Welles' picture - in so much that he didn't direct it, write it, or for that matter star in it...

Film • 11 Sep 24

Jack Nicholson takes it on the nose in Chinatown (Pic: Getty)

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Hollywood's final golden hour

1974 was a banner year for Hollywood, as we've seen by the many fiftieth anniversary re-releases so far this year (with more to come)...

Film • 18 Aug 24

Sissy Spacek in the film version of Stephen King's carrie

Hail to the King - 50 years of the master of literary horror

One afternoon in the early 1970s, the author Tabitha King stopped by her husband's office and noticed an unusually large pile of pages in his waste paper basket...

Books • 25 Jul 24

Viva Furiosa - the long, wild road to the year's maddest movie

"I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the road warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time."

Film • 22 May 24

Francis Ford Coppola returns to Cannes this May with Megalopolis

Can Francis Ford Coppola pull off his greatest cinematic gamble?

On May 14th the annual Cannes Film Festival will commence in the south of France, bringing with it film makers and movie premiers from all over the globe.

Film • 20 Apr 24